4.5% ▲ +178.5%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Loftville · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 86.8% of residents in Loftville. This means very few people here use another language at home compared to the rest of the state and country. Only 4.5% of the population speaks a language other than English.
English and the largest community languages.
While only 4.5% of people use another language at home—far below the national figure of 22.3%—around 1.5% of residents speak little or no English. This is much higher than most similar areas, though still a little below the New South Wales average of 4.5%.
4.5% ▲ +178.5%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
1.5% ▲ —
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Loftville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12381/loftville/topic/language